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About the Role
We are seeking a Founding ML Researcher to pioneer on-device AI. This role involves identifying opportunities, designing and executing experiments, and generating insights that enhance real-world performance. You will have substantial control over our research direction and influence company technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Identify and validate new approaches to on-device efficiency, including speculative decoding variants, novel quantization schemes, and new techniques.
- Build intelligence systems for serving requests between on-device and frontier API models.
- Design systems for autonomous exploration, hypothesis generation, and evaluation of research ideas to accelerate R&D.
- Develop rigorous evaluations and benchmarks to measure real-world performance.
Requirements
- PhD in ML or equivalent industry research experience.
- Deep understanding of LLM architectures and AI inference principles.
- Expertise in a relevant topic such as speculative decoding, quantization theory, model distillation, or reinforcement learning.
- A track record of producing impactful results (research papers, open-source projects, or blog posts).
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex ideas clearly, provide feedback, and document findings reproducibly.
- Familiarity with GPU and accelerator architectures and kernel optimization (CUDA, ROCm, Metal, Triton, etc.).
- Experience deploying models under on-device constraints (memory bandwidth, latency budgets, thermal and power ceilings).
Skills
- On-device AI
- Inference efficiency
- Speculative decoding
- Quantization
- Model distillation
- Reinforcement learning
- LLM architectures
- AI inference
- GPU architectures
- Accelerator architectures
- Kernel optimization
- CUDA
- ROCm
- Metal
- Triton
- Model deployment
- Memory bandwidth optimization
- Latency optimization
- Written and spoken English
Location
- Melbourne
- Berlin
Work Type
- In-person
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Founding team
Education Level
- PhD in ML or equivalent industry research experience
Salary/Compensations
- Strong base salary
Benefits
- Founding team equity
- Direct influence on technical direction
- Opportunity to work on challenging, unsolved problems
- Small team environment
- Fast iteration
- Low bureaucracy
About the Company
- Base Compute is an AI inference lab focused on bringing AGI to devices.
- We aim to provide fast, private, and always-available intelligence on devices.
- We are building the infrastructure for next-generation on-device AI, from silicon optimizations to distributed inference systems.
- We tackle complex challenges at the intersection of inference efficiency, model intelligence, and autonomous research.